The way Garner treats restaurants in Manchester has become a hot topic in the city’s hospitality industry recently. “It's just the arrogance to assume that at some point the self-professed ‘rainmaker of Manchester’ would get us on board,” says James Bates from @MarayRestaurant.

“This is typical of how Koreans do business,” he told her, according to those present. At another point he said: “You’re going to fold.” One witness to the meeting says Garner berated Noh, threatened to sue her if she ended the voucher promotion and reduced her to tears.

When one of Manchester’s biggest food critics lashed out at an independent, restauranteurs hit back. By @jackdulhanty open.substack.com/pub/themil…